Category Archives: DJ Naiki

It is debatable whether he is the best to ever do it, but he has definitely been consistent and outlasted many of his peers. He has come a long way from crack cocaine raps to becoming a respectable member of the establishment rubbing shoulders with dignitaries such as Prince Charles and President Obama. In my opinion a key part of his success has been a good ear for hip hop production. With so many hits and so many sweet as soul samples, Naiki’s tribute mashing up Jay-Z classics and the original samples was as killer as predicted.

Way back when all Australian’s knew how to do at concerts was mosh and crowd surf inappropriately to everything, I remember seeing Beastie Boys at Sydney’s Hordern Pavillion, just after Hello Nasty was released. It was an amazing show as the group played as a band performing their really diverse catalogue. Amazing.

They are a group that has reinvented themselves again and again over time. Never staying still. They way were the group that helped to expose hip hop to white kids, but through the years also introduced hip hop kids to punk, bossanova, funk, country and much more.

Rest in Peace, Adam Yauch a.k.a. MCA. This our tribute to the Beastie Boys put together by DJ Naiki

This Sunday at Ching-a-lings is totally going to be like this. Naiki San, myself and a random cat floating through Shinjuku in a flying saucer shooting lasers out of our eyes. As a little teaser, I thought I would post one of my favourite Naiki mixes from the show. This is a G-Funk vs P-Funk selection from back in 2008. Sorry about my over excited yelling on the mic.

I hosted the DOOM show when he was out here not so long ago. We were told we had to clear the stage area when DOOM came, and we couldn’t look him in the eye or talk to him unless he talked to us. It was like he was Prince, but not nearly as famous.

I thought it would be really funny if I came out on stage earlier wearing a mask and pretend to be a DOOMPOSTER. So I went up to Oxford St and bought this feathery sequenced butterfly mask and came out on stage like “Yo this is DOOM, I lost my old mask in customs, this is my new look, son”. Don’t think anybody else found it that amusing.

Anyways, DJ Naiki plays a set of DOOM tracks mixed with the original samples. Listen for all that Madvillain, King Geedorah, Metal Face goodness.

Also we get raunchy with The Tongue. Talking about his new mixtape – Sex Tape.

We couldn’t really go wrong with this one. Just Blaze the Megatron Don has got bangers for days. DJ Naiki pays tribute to Justin with another extended sample snitching mix. Hear Naiki mashing up tracks Just Blaze produced with the tracks he sampled. Just BLaazzzeeee!

It’s that time again. Melbourne’s Phrase usually pays us a visit just before he is ready drop a new album. We talk about the new record, Babylon, drunken tales in Tasmania and his marriage to the very talented and really quite fetching Jade Macrae.